cabbage

On another show we took out last week, our expectations were greatly disappointed. It was a Restaurant Show and everyone went to work hungry, expecting to get fed there. But all they left were half empty wine bottles and a head of cabbage. To me, the wine bottles were half full, and I just did not have the heart to leave the cabbage behind, so I took it home. Since I never cooked cabbage (I was happy to even recognise it as such and not, as some others did, take it for lettuce), I did not quite know what to do with it. Google helped me, and I remembered Puli cooking cabbage once upon a time in Cologne, so here is what I made of it:

you don't really taste the cabbage, it is way to hot as I miscalculated the amount of chilly powder and, yes, it does make you fart! But well, you have to try everything once, don't you?

Notes from work: ATE 2009

The reason why we worked so much last week was ATE, the Australian Tourism Exchange Show. It took a couple of 12h shifts to get all the shit in, and a whole night to get it all out. But, the nice Tourism people left a lot of stuff behind, so it was a night full of chocolate, T-shirts, Australian tea and we had a lot of fun treasure hunting through all the abandoned stalls. I scored a nice trolley, two shirts and a sweater, a beany, a scarf, tea, honey, two small staplers, a notebook (the paper ones, remember), and some yogurt. But, most interestingly, I found a folder with the whole marketing concept of Tourism Australia for North America, defining their peer groups, laying out their markeitng strategies and giving budget details - hell, they spend a lot of money to get some Yanks over here!

my first footy: The Community Cup

Sunday I went to my first Aussie rules football match - ever! And it was even for a good cause: The Community Cup! Megahertz, a team of radio makers plays a team made of various Rockstars, called Rockdogs. All of them are extremely pale, beer-bellied and usually better at watching and commenting than actually playing football.
But the whole thing is a big family event, held annually to support some charitable organisation, this year it was reclink , an organisation that supports disadvantaged members of our community with arts and sports programmes.
What can I say, the beer was cheap, the sausages from the sizzle quite disgusting and the game a little bit hard to follow due to the immense size of the field, my bad eyesight and the lack of a close-up camera coverage. But it was fun anyway and I have been promised that proper AFL footy is totally different.

Jiyeon with beer



Emelie and Aaron

Of course, no Melbourne Event, especially not with radio and music makers involved without the fair portion of live music. Since we got there quite late, we missed the first band, but the second, Dollsquad, were superb Rock'n'Roll.

if david lynch directed dirty dancing

watch on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjvuCOlkO4E

Queens Birthday out in the country

a workmate`s sister has a property in the countryside, about 45min out of Melbourne. She also has horses and competes, her husband is a metalworker, so Emelie and I were keen to pay them a visit, which we did last sunday.
Unfortunately, the weather was not the very best, although it cleared up in the afternoon. Lisa has not only two horses, but also two small kids, Jordyn, 7 and Christin, 2. Sunday was pony club day for Jordyn, so we loaded Rusty, the quite tall Shetland onto the float and drove to the local pony club. Since it is much cheaper to keep horses in Australia, most people have their own horses and bring them once a month to their training facility. This one had a beautiful cross country parcours and we saw some very good riders and beautiful horses. Emelies and my job was either leading the pony or leading Christin, or, at times, both.


The kids were really cute and we had a lot of fun.

At night we got a delicious dinner and watched Harry Potter and fell asleep in front of the TV.


The family was lucky to have survived the fires of Black Sunday, the fires came through in sight of their house. If you have a closer look at this picture you will see that the hill is not so dark because of the weather, but that it is burnt.

the good food and wine show

a short note from my worklife: Last week we did the good food and wine show. It was a massive show with many custom made stands and heaps of our best furniture (I have to know that because we had to sort through hundreds of stools and chairs to find our best, which was hard and took two days in the warehouse). Star guest of the show was Gordon Ramsay, a guy who is more famous for insulting his poor apprentices and guests of his cook show than for his gourmet creations. Well, now I can at least say I saw him live.
We serviced the show before it opened on friday morning and were lucky enough to get in for free afterwards. So I took the chance to finally show you some photos of what I do - unfortunately with people in it, what kinda ruins the impression...

a short week of short films

The St. Kilda Film Festival came to an end with a glorious Closing Party last Sunday.
But let's start from the beginning. On monday I went to my first Swing Dance lesson ever! It was really good fun, but my brain was struggeling a bit with the coordination. It went a lot better this week though :-)

Tuesday was the Opening Night of the Film Festival. First Jiyeon and me saw some of the best short films at the Palais Theatre in St.Kilda and went to the Parte at the town hall with free drinks and fingerfood afterwards. Yum!

During the week I got to see a lot of films, and met very nice people. Saturday night I actually worked at the ticketing desk ...

and sunday helped at the Closing Night and the Award Ceremony. It felt soooo good doing Events again! We decorated the whole room, laid the tables, controlled tickets and brought out the pizzas (Dominos was a sponsor and did the catering - I have never eaten so much bad pizza, but it was good fun!). It was definitely not my last film festival!